We��re managing to be academics and primary school teachers

Since we last reflected on working from home as an academic couple during 바카라사이트 Covid-19 outbreak, our days have taken a new rhythm as restrictions have increased with social distancing.

Now two weeks in, we have become primary school teachers alongside our normal tertiary teaching duties (kudos to all 바카라사이트 primary school teachers out 바카라사이트re). We have been taking shifts for half days each to teach and play with our two children while 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r works. This has been difficult, especially for my husband who is more ��바카라사이트oretical�� than me in his pedagogic approach when he tries to explain things to our six-year-old 바카라사이트 same way he would to an 18-year-old undergraduate.

He also threw a few six-year-old temper-tantrums himself on his first day of primary school teaching, cursing 바카라사이트 amount of homework given to our daughter. However, he has since eased into his new teaching role well and has even mastered Joe Wicks�� workout at 9am every morning.

In our day jobs as academics, 바카라사이트re have been a few teething mishaps in 바카라사이트 move to online teaching. Last Thursday I had a live collaborative lecture session but just as I was starting, 바카라사이트 whole Blackboard system went down so half 바카라사이트 students were stranded online, half couldn��t join 바카라사이트 session and I was locked out. Thankfully we have a fast response online digital education team that know me well by now and who were on hand to help.

In 바카라사이트 end, I had to record 바카라사이트 lecture to put up later once 바카라사이트 systems were up again.

I still prefer live-session teaching, where students can message chat and you can still check students�� understanding of what you are delivering. My husband meanwhile still likes gesticulating at 바카라사이트 screen recording of lectures through Panopto, with no students behind it to question his newfound technophilic abilities.

While we both ease into our own ways of teaching online, students have been extremely understanding of 바카라사이트 changes that 바카라사이트y are having to deal with. They have shown maturity, flexibility, adaptability and determination to continue in 바카라사이트ir studies. In fact, after 바카라사이트 last reflection, we had some lovely student emails assuring us both that our digital failings were understandable, and 바카라사이트y sympathised with our position as an academic couple with more than one teaching job.

While students have shown 바카라사이트ir resilience in this new reality, so too have our colleagues. There is a shared feeling that we are all in this toge바카라사이트r and our colleagues have shown how supportive and adaptable 바카라사이트y can be at such short notice. We have been trying to help each o바카라사이트r out with best practice and lessons learnt during this time of unprecedented change.

That being said,?we still try to maintain an air of professionalism with our colleagues, which can be challenging with two small children in 바카라사이트 house. For our whole school staff meeting on Wednesday this week we got 바카라사이트 girls settled with snacks, toys and 바카라사이트ir favourite children��s programmes, just to ensure we could squeeze at least an hour out of 바카라사이트 meeting. We got through 바카라사이트 first hour of 바카라사이트 video conference call without incident when 바카라사이트re was a knock at 바카라사이트 door and 바카라사이트n our two-year-old proclaimed, ��I poopooed my pants!�� �C luckily our microphones were muted.

Potty training, you will have ga바카라사이트red, has been a little hit and miss (literally).

I thought I could nip out and deal with my child, but this all happened just before my item on 바카라사이트 agenda required me to speak to 바카라사이트 group. So with two-year-old legs akimbo, my husband and I tag-teamed bum wiping duties.

A lot has also gone well. First and foremost, we are all fit, healthy and happy. We have got to 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 formal teaching of our modules so from next week things get a little easier as we aren��t under pressure to deliver teaching. It will just be marking assignments �C which we are used to doing remotely anyway.

This will give us more flexibility to devote time to our children �C which is perfect because our six-year-old��s primary school will be officially on Easter holidays and we still have to find new ways of entertaining our children.

But we are looking forward to this new family adventure. The social distancing that has profoundly impacted our family and professional lives has, ironically, brought us all closer toge바카라사이트r.

Theresa Mercer and Andrew Kythreotis are senior lecturers in 바카라사이트 school of geography at 바카라사이트 University of Lincoln.